Many studies from the likes of Prince et al. (2011), Lachapelle (2010), and Lopez and Hynes (2006) aim to show the public that the environment has a direct impact on the health of the people who call it home. Although the built environment can be factors in multiple health issues, in this project I focus on health issues that deal with obesity and other diseases caused by lack of physical activity. For this reason, the project will concentrate on environmental factors that affect one’s ability to be physically active. For example, Lopez and Hynes argued that features of the environment such as lack of sidewalks, poor walkability and homogenous land variability lead to decreased physical activity and higher obesity rates. Lachapelle looks into the relationship between public transit availability and physical activity rates. Lachapelle believes that those who use public transit are more likely to be physically active, living a healthier lifestyle. Prince et al. argues that not only does the walkability affect one’s health but also the level of community orientation. An environment with easy access to community centres, recreation centres, and other amenities are more likely to live a healthier lifestyle. This again is directly correlated with land type variability and the level of landscape heterogeneity. However, a lot of the research also looked to explain why inner city neighbourhoods which seem to pass a lot of the previous criterion still have high obesity rates. For this reason I have decided to add an analysis on the proximity of fast food locations versus grocery store locations, which hopefully may answer some of these questions. Declaring that these ideas are universal, the assumption to be made is that the GVRD also follows these ideas. By applying these ideas to the GVRD, one will be able to see how healthy the GVRD is and hopefully discover areas that are unhealthy and possibly figure out why they are in their current situation.